The History and introduction of the Daurian Lily Lilium pensylvanicum and the new combination L. pensylvanicum var. alpinum (Liliaceae) Author Compton, James A. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5421-1554 Spilsbury Farm, Salisbury, SP 36 RU, UK jamiecompton@madasafish.com Author Sytin, Andrej K. Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Prof. Popov Street 2, St. Petersburg 197376, Russia andrey.sytin.bin@gmail.com text PhytoKeys 2023 2023-12-22 236 215 247 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.236.111741 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.236.111741 1314-2003-236-215 28FCF88BF2395561BD0FDEF368522CDB Lilium pensylvanicum var. alpinum (N.I.Kuznetsov) J.Compton & Sytin comb. nov. Basionym. Lilium dauricum var. alpinum N.I.Kuznetsov, Trudy Bot. Muz. Rosiisk. Akad. Nauk 18: 80 (1920). Lectotype designated here from syntypes (Fig. 8 ): Russia Far East, Sakhalin Ostrov, Naibuchi Post, [near Dolinsk], 27 June 1899, N.Shestunov 59 (lecto. LE!) [LE01075424]; syntypes: Russia Far East, Amurskaya Oblast, Chamberlain N. L. Gondatti Expedition, railway construction line between Nevers and Urusha stations, loam deposits on river bank, 1 May 1910, Kvashnin-Samarin 204 (LE!) [LE01075428]; Russia Far East, Amur Oblast, upper reaches of the River Rakindi [Reka Pravaya Rakindi], no collector cited (n.v.); Russia Far East, Sakhalin Ostrov, among rocky mountains, near Due [Dui], 30 May 1872, [ Foma or Tomash, Matveyevich ] Avgustinovich s.n. (n.v.); Russia Far East, Primoriye Region [Primorsky Krai], Udskoi, [Udskoye, now Khabarovsk Krai] P.Meyer s.n. (n.v.). Figure 8. Lectotype specimen N.Shestunov 59 of Lilium dauricum var. alpinum LE01075424 designated by Compton & Sytin, this paper. Distribution. Russia - Amur, Khabarovsk, Primorye, Sakhalin. This variety probably has a wider distribution than indicated from Herbarium material seen in LE. It is, for example, likely to include short plants known informally as "rebunense" from Rebun Island off the north-west corner of Hokkaido, Japan. Phenology. Flowering period is from May to June.